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Government gives thumbs down to PDF format 
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Government gives thumbs down to PDF format
By John Hilvert | Dec 1, 2010 | 27 Comments 
Adobe's document format lacks accessibility, says AGIMO.
 
Adobe 'sandbox' to protect Reader from hackers 
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Adobe 'sandbox' to protect Reader from hackers
By Nate Cochrane | Jul 21, 2010 | Comment Now 
Cybercriminals will have to find another way into your PC's crown jewels.
 
Google converts scans, PDFs to Docs 
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Google converts scans, PDFs to Docs
By Liz Tay | Jun 23, 2010 | Comment Now 
Optical character recognition extended for PDFs, images.
 
RIM warns of BlackBerry server risk from PDFs 
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RIM warns of BlackBerry server risk from PDFs
By Iain Thomson | Dec 5, 2009 | Comment Now 
Mobiles and servers in danger.
 
Google adds formatted PDFs to search results 
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Google adds formatted PDFs to search results
By Rosalie Marshall | Oct 9, 2009 | Comment Now 
Touts new Quick View links.
 
RIM warns of BlackBerry PDF vulnerability 
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RIM warns of BlackBerry PDF vulnerability
By Phil Muncaster | May 28, 2009 | Comment Now 
Research In Motion (RIM) has released details of a flaw in its BlackBerry Attachment Service that could allow hackers to remotely execute code and gain control of a BlackBerry ...
 
Experts warn of new PDF attacks 
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Experts warn of new PDF attacks
By Shaun Nichols | Sep 27, 2008 | Comment Now 
Security organisations are warning users to be vigilant following the discovery of a new crop of tools for exploited PDF flaws.
 
Adobe passes PDF format to ISO 
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Adobe passes PDF format to ISO
By Robert Jaques | Jul 3, 2008 | Comment Now 
Adobe has passed control of its Portable Document Format to the International Organisation for Standardisation..
 
Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above 
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Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above
By Liz Tay | Apr 29, 2008 | Comment Now 
A new software technique has been developed to allow interactive, three-dimensional visualisations to be embedded into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
 
WordPerfect goes PDF 
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WordPerfect goes PDF
By Dave Bailey | Apr 17, 2008 | Comment Now 
Corel has launched the latest version of its Office productivity suite, WordPerfect Office X4, touting it as "the world's first PDF Office Suite".
 
Web attacks target PDF flaw 
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Web attacks target PDF flaw
By Shaun Nichols | Feb 12, 2008 | Comment Now 
Security researchers are warning users to upgrade their version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader following reports of new vulnerabilities..
 
Adobe wins backing for PDF 1.7 
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Adobe wins backing for PDF 1.7
By Matt Chapman | Dec 6, 2007 | Comment Now 
Adobe has received backing for the next version of the PDF document format, following an overwhelming vote by the ISO standards panel..
 
Yahoo to serve PDF ads 
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Yahoo to serve PDF ads
By Shaun Nichols | Dec 3, 2007 | Comment Now 
Adobe and Yahoo have announced a programme which will place adverts in PDF files..
 
Cyber-criminals launch PDF malware offensive 
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Cyber-criminals launch PDF malware offensive
By Robert Jaques | Nov 2, 2007 | Comment Now 
Sophos said that the new PDFex Trojan has been widely spammed out in emails with an infected Adobe Acrobat PDF attachment, and has reached third position in the malware chart.
 
Spam filter targets PDF scams 
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Spam filter targets PDF scams
By Clement James | Jul 31, 2007 | Comment Now 
Anti-spam firm ClearMyMail has claimed 100 percent protection against PDF spam, as spammers change their tactics in a bid to flood mailboxes.
 
Vendors disagree on PDF spam volumes 
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Vendors disagree on PDF spam volumes
By Negar Salek | Jul 26, 2007 | Comment Now 
PDF spam, the most prevalent spam method currently used by hackers globally has decreased in numbers over the last two weeks, claims data security vendor BitDefender, but ...
 
IDefense backtracks on PDF scare 
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IDefense backtracks on PDF scare
By Matt Chapman | Jan 8, 2007 | Comment Now 
Not as big a problem as first thought.
 
ScanSoft seeks VARs, developers 
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ScanSoft seeks VARs, developers
By Fleur Doidge | Apr 20, 2005 | Comment Now 
Speech and imaging systems vendor ScanSoft is seeking VARs for volume opportunities and to incorporate ScanSoft technology into other applications via software development kit ...
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